‘The French Revolution’ Review: Bastille Day and After

Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...

Three historical walks in Paris, in the footsteps of the French Revolution

The Reign of Terror, the guillotine, the Bastille, the Third Estate: The history of the French Revolution comes to life on ...
Syrian Arab News Agency

Syrian-French Council marks the Syrian Revolution victory in Paris

Syrian-French Council Holds Celebration in Paris Marking Victory of Syrian RevolutionThe Syrian-French Council held an ...
Smithsonian Magazine

On This Day in 1793, Revolutionaries Executed the King of France by Guillotine, a Deadly Machine They Saw as a Symbol of Equality

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s most iconic moments. That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An hour-and ...
Mises Institute

The Coppet Group: Liberty’s Circle in an Age of Revolution and Reaction

In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her ...

Review: Dallas Opera’s ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’ vivid but uneven

Raymond Aceto’s well-seasoned bass boomed imposingly for the pompous Marquis de la Force, father of Blanche and the Chevalier ...